"Assessment, Monitoring and Protection of Groundwater Pollution in Urban Areas" Workshop in Argentina, July 24-30, 2006 organized by UNESCO- IHE

With the framework of the PoWER project, UNESCO-IHE invited Eng. Amjad Assi - Research Associate at House of Water and Environment  to participate in  the workshop which was held at Blas Pascal University, Cordoba, Argentina from July 24-30, 2006.

With the framework of the PoWER Joint Research Project between UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education (Netherlands), Blas Pascal University (Argentina), Indian Institute of Technology (Roorkee, India). Birzeit University and House of Water and Environment (Palestine) are working together in this project. UNESCO-IHE invited Eng. Amjad Assi - Research Associate at House of Water and Environment to participate in the project workshop which was held at Blas Pascal University, Cordoba, Argentina from July 24-30, 2006.

The participants in the workshop were;

    1.  Yangxiao Zhou, PhD - Associate Professor in Hydrology – UNESCO-IHE.
    2.  Dr. D. C. Singhal – Professor in Department of Hydrology
         – Indian Institute of  Technology – Roorkee.
    3.  Dr. Alberto Emilio Ferral – The Head of the Environmental Department 
         and he is also  the Secretary of Extension and International Relations –
         Blas Pascal University.
    4.  Dr. Eugenia Alaniz – Blas Pascal University.
    5.  Eng. Amjad Assi – Research Associate – House of Water and
         Environment.

                            
In this workshop, work plans were prepared for all partners. Moreover, a video conference between the team in Argentina and UNESCO_IHE was performed so as to discuss such joint projects.
There will be some publications and papers in national and international journals at the end of this project.